Barbancourt

The game setup has already become more clan-based than nation-based anyway, and that certainly isn't historical. Having new flags in the mix can make a fun "what if..." alternate history narrative, if you like.

The votes between the leaders in the initial poll were pretty close at 139-140-112, but now Montanes has a huge lead 42-97-60. It seems like an oddly large shift in the numbers, with no obvious reason for people to change preferences so suddenly.

It doesn't appear on the keyboard bindings map I have for the game.

Ohhhh...so THAT's what that is. I'm manouvering around in a battle and things go wonky and it says "depower" under sails and I was not sure how that was happening...

Seeing how the results have shifted a bit from the previous poll I'm curious whether there's any subterfuge going on...

That doesn't make much sense when they're based on opposite sides of the map.

It's too soon after a new patch for another big upheaval, and the next patch needs to eliminate night/workflips and ping would need to be acceptable globally.

I (French) sailed across the map into the Bahamas twice in the last week and the only player I saw the whole time was Spanish. Who you call'n "dead"?

People who only want to PVE would presumably already be on the PVE server. It's been there all along.

What are you talking about? There already is a PVE server where the "PVE community" is.

We need a far larger population on Global than we achieved during the summer to continue with the current PB/RvR system. Thousands, at least. Even then experience over the summer suggests that players will self-segregate into timezone based nations and night/workflip their enemies into quitting. Either the timescale of RvR has to lengthen to multiple days, or we need some kind of RvR time windowing to eliminate the stupid soul-sucking flipping wars.

How will I pray to the RNGods for high rolls?

I've been sailing all over the map recently, and just watch youtubes and check forums which I'd be doing anyway. Mebbe when we hit a big open stretch of water the game can kick into Legends mode lobby and after the battle we pop back into OW 200k later.

I'll vote for a Dutch ship if it has a chance to win, but seeing the lead Montanes has I switched to Princesa Real for now

It usually takes me a trip or two across the entire map to get a bottle without the fishing perk. I thought they only happened in deep water, and then I got one while sitting in port last week. I'm not sure if the catch rate has changed, but it's so low that RNG can make the frequency of occurance seem odd.

They are a little too large. People should be free to do whatever floats their boat. If you'd prefer to see 25 people on the PVP server instead then you can try to force them to do things your way only. Probably about half the people on the server at any given time are either AFK or logged in too briefly to do any PvP stuff. I go on daily for about an hour to use my labor hours and move some resources around. Some days I have a little more time, but I will only do PvP if there's a group activity happening. No point in sailing out alone to throw away my ships/repairs/cannons just to please old Landsman.

All players need some space, or small nations that get capital-camped are just going to quit again.

In other words, the ships you attack are typically so much weaker than yours that two or three more of them wouldn't present much more of a threat?

Ports, like IRL houses, are infernal money gobbling black holes that consume money and broken dreams for breakfast. :/

Red Duke/ROVER said they'd be taking a break during this patch

Breaking up the meta reguarly would be a good thing.

Whatever, I've never been to the bunghole end of the map and wasn't planning to between now and 2050 anyway.

It should be sitting in your docks

That would be a different poll. This poll is about which ship will be in game, so only the top 2-3 that have a chance of winning matter. I doubt I'd ever use those ships, but there's no point in voting for the other ships that have no chance of winning.

It seems clear that none of these will win anyway